Again, the media stuffs up space news

[Kiwi]

New Zealand company Rocket Lab has unveiled at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs its different method of getting fuel into a small rocket engine, but reporters with the usual lack of understanding say Rocket Lab have unveiled the world's first battery-powered rocket engine.

Yeah, right!  Just load in some AA batteries and you're off into space.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/small-business/67717283/rocket-lab-unveils-electric-rocket-engine

It's hardly any different to the report back about 16 July 1969 that said, when describing what would happen during the Apollo 11 mission, "Two of the astronauts — Apollo-XI commander Neil A. Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin — crawl through a tunnel into the lunar module, detach it from the main craft and descend with it to the moon..."

No they wouldn't and didn't.  Some reporter had to dolly-up whatever it was that NASA handed out, and got it wrong. Being in zero G, Armstrong and Aldrin floated through the tunnel. 

                         

[Count Zero]

I forget where, but I recall reading about the LM with its "thundering rocket engine descending to the craggy surface in a billowing cloud of dust."   

I also remember a major American newscaster reporting on the Voyager probe's images of "Jupiter's moon 10."

 

[Chew]

I also remember a major American newscaster reporting on the Voyager probe's images of "Jupiter's moon 10."

Yeah, it was Tom Brokaw: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/io_brokaw.html

Lot's more here: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/birdcage.html

[BazBear]

LMAO @ Tom Brokaw